Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, September 26, 1980 Page: 1 of 8
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Parking on Lot 7 adjoining McDonald
Gym will not be available to students
Tuesday until after 9:30 a.m., university
police chief Eugene Carpenter said.
Parking on the lot before 9:30 a.m. will
be reserved for participants of the Texas
Conference of Small Business, to be held in
the Setzer Student Center Ballroom, Car-
penter said.
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Friday, September 26,1980
Vol. 57, No. 7
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Sewell, Hamilton in runoff
4Figure not alarming’
Crime up 13 percent
Jack Sewell, Beaumont mass com-
munications major, and Michael
Hamilton, Port Arthur government major,
will oppose each other in an election runoff
for freshman class president.
According to Lynne Freeland, chair-
person for the election commission, the
runoff is scheduled for Monday and
Tuesday from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. near
the Setzer Student Center information
desk entrance. Only freshmen are allowed
to vote, she said.
In addition, three freshman class of-
ficers and five Student Government
Association senatorial positions have been
filled during elections held Monday and
Tuesday. '
A total of 297 votes were cast in the elec-
tion, Freeland said.
Sewell drew 143 votes for president and
Hamilton received 82.
Candidates defeated in the presidential
election were Chris Kim, Beaumont ac-
counting major, with 59 votes, and Son-
ceria Standifer, Fort Worth mass com-
munications major, with 13 votes.
Beauregard Brown III has been named
Lamar’s affirmative action manager, Dr.
Andrew Johnson, vice president for ad-
ministration and planning, said.
Brown will be working out of the Em-
ployment Office in conjunction with
Sharon Hall, employment manager, and
Joe Pate, benefits manager, Johnson said.
Brown’s responsibilities will include
continuing the employee orientation
program instituted by Bob Frederick,
assistant professor of men’s physical
education and former part-time af-
The deadline for candidates to register
for 1980-81 homecoming queen is 4:30p.m.,
Friday, Oct. 17, according to Sheila Coco,
homecoming publicity co-chairman.
Applicants may be made in the activities
area of the Setzer Student Center. No late
entries will be accepted, Coco said.
Candidates for homecoming queen must
be nominated by a registered student
/'“Weather Word“>
Partly cloudy skies through
Sunday. A chance of showers
today, with temperatures tur-
ning slightly cooler Saturday
and Sunday.-
Daytime highs will range
from the mid 80s to the low 90s.
Nighttime lows will range from
the mid 60s to the mid 70s.
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Officers elected for the freshman class
are Candace Cribbs, Beaumont govern-
ment major, vice president; Michelle
Collins, Groves physical therapy major,
secretary; and Cathy Lewis, Beaumont
personnel administration major,
treasurer.
Cribbs defeated George Caughlin,
Groves management major, 163 to 120, in
the vice presidential election.
Collins defeated Denise Ward,
Beaumont psychology major, 179 to 102, in
the secretarial election.
. Lewis defeated Matthew Gauvin,
Leominster, Mass., mass communications
major, 169 to 109 in the treasurer's elec-
tion.
Student Government Association
senators were determined in an election
held concurrently with the freshman elec-
tions.
Mark Adams and David Green ran unop-
posed in the freshman senatorial race.
Adams, Groves pre-law major, received
208 votes and Green, Baytown undecided
major, received 154 votes.
Letitia Johnson and Lori Romero ran
unopposed in the freshman senator-at-
large race. Johnson, Beaumont pre-law
major, received 284 votes and Romero,
Port Arthur nursing major, received 293
votes.
Tammy Webb ran unopposed in the
College of Technical Arts race for senator.
Webb, Beaumont freshman, received 62
votes.
Election commission officials who
supervised the tabulation of the votes in-
clude Freeland, Mark Merritt, Groves
junior; Joe Richardson, Nederland junior;
Kyle Scaff, Missouri City junior; Dale
Knight, Beaumont sophomore; Henry
Hebert,- Beaumont junior;" and Brad
Wilson, Nederland junior.
Other officials supervising were Mary
Wilson, Arlington senior; Karen Simmons,
Vidor senior; Steven Walker, Groves
junior; Glen Rose, Nederland sophomore;
and Tammy Forker, Nederland junior.
Serving as advisers to the election com-
mission were Ann Shaw, dean of student
development, and Kathleen Pere, assitant
dean of student development.
the affirmative action program. Brown
said this aspect of the job will keep him in
contact with state, city and private en-
tities.
Brown said his specific job duties will in-
clude the maintenance of Lamar’s af-
firmative action program—recruitment,
hiring and promotions of employees, con-
ducting manpower personnel audits,
working with placement and enrollment,
coordinating complaints, working with
federal agencies and establishing goals
and timetables for the program.
“I plan to build on policies already in
existence, and I anticipate no immediate
changes in the program," Brown said.
Through the affirmative action
program, Brown said that he hopes to offer
persons in the community, traditionally
left out of the work force, challenging
positions at Lamar by assisting them with
training for necessary skills.
Brown, who assumed his position Sept. 9,
was previously employed by the Univer-
sity of North Carolina system as director
of government plans and programs. Prior
to that, he served in the army for 20 years.
He earned his bachelor of science degree
in education, with a minor in history, from
Prairie View A & M, where he was editor
of the school newspaper for two years.
Stricter observance of Beaumont city
health ordinances this fall by city officials
will require that organizations buy health
permits before selling food on campus.
An organization wishing to prepare and
sell food to raise money will be required to
buy a health permit before the sale, Larry
Markley, dean of student activities and
director of the Setzer Student Center, said.
Cost of a permit good for 14 days is $10.
City ordinances required that the per-
mits be bought before this fall, but were
not firmly enforced for some foods, such as
cookies or popcorn, Markley said.
Those foods will now need health official
approval before being prepared and sold
this fall, he said.
Markley said that the need to obtain
health permits will greatly reduce the
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By DAVID MARTINDALE
of the UP staff
Although crime on Lamar’s main cam-
pus during the 1979-80 academic year is up
13 percent, university police chief Gene
Carpenter said the figure is not as alar-
ming as it seems.
Between Sept. 1, 1979, and Aug. 31,1980,
university police have received 609 reports
of crime on campus, 70 more than the 539
crimes reported during the same period
the year before.
Despite the increase, university police
records show no jump in the number of
more violent crimes, such as assault or
rape.
Carpenter said that the bulk of the 13-
percent increase is theft, of which 273 were
reported during the 1979-80 academic year.
The year before, 208 thefts were reported.
Burglaries constitute the second most-
reported crime, totaling 77 during the 1979-
80 academic year, two higher than the
previous year.
Criminal mischief, or vandalism, was
the third most-reported crime, totaling 73
during 1979-80. During the previous year,
92 reports of vandalism were received.
Lesser in number are reports of assault,
rape and robbery.
Throughout both the 1978-79 and 1979-80
(Sept. 1 - Aug. 31) academic years, no
cases of rape or robbery were reported.
Carpenter said that only one rape, that
of Sept. 20, has been reported in the past
Greenfield:
Television has less of an impact on
political campaigns than most people tend
to believe.
In fact, author and media critic Jeff
Greenfield told an audience of ap-
proximately 150 Wednesday night in the
Setzer Student Center Ballroom, people
have incorrectly labeled television as the
element in determining the way can-
didates conduct their campaigns.
This belief, he said, results from the
faulty reasoning that "since B follows A, B
was caused by A.” That sort of assumption
is made when people blame television
for contemporary campaign practices, he
said.
Moreover, many of these practices of
which people are critical predate the
existence of television, he said.
To support this view, Greenfield offered
observations that differ from commonly
accepted beliefs about the relationship bet-
ween campaigning and the media:
...Television has not necessarily caused
candidates to base their campaigns on
symbols and slogans, rather than issues.
...The strategy of drawing votes on the
basis of a candidate’s physical appeal
became part of politics before television
existed.
...Television has forced politicians to be
more honest and straightforward than in
the past.
...Television has not necessarily tran-
sformed candidates into "hucksters” and
was not the first medium to be “selling
candidates like soap."
Greenfield admitted that television has
contributed to a candidate’s reliance on
symbols as opposed to issues, such as
President Jimmy Carter’s 1976 presiden-
tial campaign.
Some of the symbols Carter relied on in-
cluded the fact that he carried his own
luggage, made his own bed and came from
a community called Plains, he said.
However, he noted, the reliance on sym-
bols in campaigns date as far back as “Old
Hickory” Andrew Jackson's time. Other
examples include Franklin D. Roosevelt’s
being born on an "old farm” and William
number of sales on campus this year.
The cost and time spent obtaining the
permits may serve as a deterrent for
many groups that otherwise might have a
sale, he said.
He added that students may experience
troubles if they prepare the food at home
and sell it on campus. In such a case,
students may need to buy two per-
mits—one for inspecting the kitchen in
which the food is prepared and another for
where the food is sold, he said.
Groups are nui required to obtain per-
mits for selling food that already has been
prepared and paexaged by a company,
Markley said.
Organizations also need to make reser-
vations for selling food in 103 SSC.
three years and rumors that there have
been several rapes this semester are in
error.
Police records also show 14 assaults
during 1979-80,10 less than 1978-79. In each
year, Carpenter said, only two cases con-
stituted aggravated assault, one of which
involved a university police officer.
As opposed to other Texas colleges and
universities, Lamar is listed seventh in in-
cidences of reported crime among 31 in-
stitutions listed by the Texas Uniform
Crime Reporting Agency between Jan. 1
and Dec. 31,1979.
Listed in order, schools with higher total
crime are Texas A&M, College Station;
the University of Texas at Austin; Texas
Tech University, Lubbock; the University
of Houston; Southern Methodist Univer-
sity, Dallas; and Southwest Texas State
University, San Marcos.
UH totaled 18 robberies and 14
aggravated assaults in 1979, as opposed to
Lamar’s three aggravated assaults, ac-
cording to the reporti
Carpenter said that the University of
Texas at Arlington is the most comparable
to Lamar of the Texas universities in three
areas—layout of the campus, enrollment
and the proportion of commuter to dor-
mitory resident students.
Although UTA has a larger enrollment
than Lamar, he said, there is less crime on
the UTA campus. However, UTA is higher
in aggravated assaults, totaling 10 in 1979,
he said.
Henry Harrison’s being bom in a log
cabin.
Not even rail-splitter “Honest Abe” Lin-
coln was above depending on these sym-
bols, according to Greenfield.
“They were milking it for everything it
was worth, he said.
In the same way, the use of symbols
preceded the development of television.
The approach of making the candidate
look good to the voters also began long ago,
Greenfield said.
That Warren G. Harding "looked like a
president” probably was a significant fac-
tor in his becoming president, Greenfield
said. Similarly, the personality of
Theodore Roosevelt was an intricate part
of his campaign as well, he said.
Unicycle built for two—Dixon White,
member of the Circus Arts Troupe, takes
Hanna Shmider, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
Edward Shmider, for a unicycle ride
Carpenter said that most of the crimes
on campus are committed by non-
students, as far as his department can
determine.
He said the only way available to deter-
mine who is committing the crimes is
through arrests made by university police.
Of 98 arrests in 1979-80, 65, or nearly two-
thirds, of those arrested were not Lamar
students.
The open atmosphere and “easy access”
to the campus probably are major reasons
for the high number of non-students in-
volved, he said.
Another factor adding to the increase,
Carpenter said, is that students are not
being "security conscious” and are
creating their own problems.
For example, he said, three men Wed-
nesday reported thefts from their gym
lockers, none of which had locks. "If they
had locks, it may have served as enough of
a deterrent to prevent the thefts,” he said.
“If you give someone the opportunity to
steal your things, he probably will take
them,” Carpenter said.
He added that the larger number of
crimes reported during 1979-80 over 1978-79
could reflect an increase in the number of
reported crimes rather than the number of
crimes committed.
Texas colleges and universities in
general have experienced a 12-percent in-
crease in crime in 1979, and Beaumont’s
crime rate also has increased by about 12
percent, Carpenter said.
It helps to look good, he said, but good
looks are not always that crucial a quality.
Greenfield discredited the possibility
that television encourages and enables a
candidate to be less honest than he other-
wise would be,,
Before the more sophisticated
technology of today’s media came into
being, a candidate could campaign dif-
ferently in two different places, altering
his views to conform to his audience at the
time, Greenfield said.
Now, such practices cannot be done
without the media exposing them, ac-
cording to Greenfield.
“Television has made it tough for a can-
didate to be all things to all people,” he
said.
around the Setzer Student Center Arbor in
a Tuesday morning performance. Shmider
is assistant professor of music at Lamar.
Photo by TOMMY NEWTON
Affirmative action manager chosen
Homecoming deadline set
firmative action officer.
His duties require him to stay abreast of
current affirmative action policies, John-
son said.
The full-time position will assume the
previous responsibilities Frederick han-
dled part-time, Johnson said.
Brown will report to Johnson for matters
of policy and to Vernon Pike, director of
personnel, regarding operational
procedures.
Brown will serve as a liaison between
the university and the community through
organization, according to Bobbie Ap-
plegate, homecoming adviser. Inquiries
may be made in the office of student
organizations, 102 SSC, Coco said.
Each entrant mu. nave completed at
least 30 semester hours with a minimum
GPA of 2.0 and must also be a full-time
student.
A mandatory meeting will be held for all
candidates Wednesday, Oct. 22, 7 p.m., at
a place to be announced, Coco said.
Preliminary elections for homecoming
queen will be Tuesday, Oct. 28 and Wed-
nesday, Oct. 29, Coco said.
Monday, Nov. 3, the five finalists will be
announced at the queen’s reception in the
SSC Ballroom at 7 p.m. Final elections for
homecoming queen will be held Wed-
nesday, Nov. 5 and Thursday, Nov. 6.
The homecoming queen will be an-
nounced at halftime of the Saturday, Nov.
8 game between Lamar and Arkansas
State, Jonesboro.
There will be a Hollywood look-alike con-
test on Tuesday, Nov. 4. Judging for the
contest will begin at 9 p.m., and a cash
prize will be awarded to the winner.
Thursday, Nov. 6, the concert choir will
have a program at 8 p.m. in the University
Theatre. Also, the torchlight parade and
bonfire will begin at Gentry Halhat 9 p.m.
and proceed to the bonfire, site, Applegate
said.
The schedjle for Friday Nov. 7, will in-
clude films in the SSC Perch, and a cof-
feehouse concert at 9 p.m.
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